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Chapter 20 Music Festival

Ryan quickly shook his head: "No need to go through so much trouble."

Then he explained, your own vocals? Sampling is just a simple "3, 2, 1, go!", it is not something that cannot be replaced.

“That’s great!” Dead Mouse breathed a visibly relieved sigh, then grinned and said, “I won’t be able to sleep if I don’t hear the full version. This is so cool, man.”

This time Ryan completed the climax under the watchful eyes of Dead Rat, his VJ and assistant.

"Is the bass too strong? It sounds like it's off beat." Mickey Mouse soon discovered that Ryan made a mistake that only a beginner would make during the climax.

“That’s what’s so special about this music.” Ryan clearly had no intention of modifying it, and had intended to do so from the beginning.

Dead Mouse helped Ryan find a new female voice sample. Ryan then spent only half an hour to complete the part from the climax to the second interlude, then pasted an extra section of the climax, and made an extra outing, and then modified each connection.

At this point, the final version of "Tremor" of 4 minutes and 54 seconds was officially completed. This time, Ryan added brackets after the song title and wrote the words "Original Mix" in it, which is the original remix version.

The song title he got through the visual perception already contained this character, and Ryan copied it word for word. At this point, Ryan has restored 90% of the original song in his mind, with some innocuous details, which can be said to be the "complete form" of the song.

"In other words, are there other versions, such as a radio version or an extended version?" Dead Mouse asked immediately.

The radio version usually only has a one- or two-bar prelude, which quickly enters the song. As the name suggests, it is usually played on the radio.

The extended version is just the opposite, with an extra-long prelude of 12-20 bars, the purpose of which is to make it easier for DJs to splice songs together on the spot using a turntable.

The three versions plus the remixes of the other two DJs can form a maxi single or single album with five tracks. In the past, seven-inch records would have different single versions engraved on the A and B sides. In the digital age, this sales format is between singles and EPs, with a price range of $2.99 to $4.99.

After all the production was completed, Mickey Mouse and two assistants became the first audience for Tremor's original mix.

"This song is a little different from the house style music I've heard before." Dead Rat said immediately.

"It has stronger bass, it's big room house." The VJ could hear it.

Dead Mouse became interested: "If this single gets a good response at the music festival, it can be commercially released in Canada!"

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The next day, Ryan and Dead Rat and his group arrived at the Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami in advance. This is the location of the main stage of this year's Ultra Music Festival. To the south of the park is the American Airlines Arena, the home of the Miami Heat, and the geographical location is very good.

At this time, the theme frame of the stage has been built. Two metal brackets several feet high like towers have been built. The front of the two towers is wrapped with semi-transparent black gauze, on which is printed the Ultra Music Festival logo that looks like a computer power button. Through the black gauze, you can vaguely see the large matrix sound system hanging on the iron frame. Between the two "towers" is the main stage, and at this moment some staff are still doing the final debugging.

Ryan followed Dead Rat and his group and stood directly on the stage. From this angle, they could see a row of tents set up in the corner of the park, which meant that a group of the most enthusiastic festival goers had arrived.

Ryan also saw many people wearing strange costumes, with giant furry boots in turquoise and bright pink, ballet skirts at the waist, bikinis, body paint or nothing on the upper body. Some also had huge "fairy wings" on their backs, as if they had just come back from the world of The Wizard of Oz, or artificial flowers like daisies on their heads.

If a normal person sees someone dressed like this, they might think they are high.

Obviously, this group of people are mostly high all the time. Ryan saw several staff members wearing reflective vests distributing some kind of items at the scene. The words "DanceSafe" were printed on the back of the vests, and there was a toll-free hotline below the logo.

"The delivery bag should contain a few small umbrellas, a pair of earplugs, and a safety guide on 'How to take drugs without endangering your life.'" Dead Mouse shook his head. He was used to it.

"Every year, there are cases of minors dying from drug use at live events, which is why you have to be here. You don't have tattoos, you play football at school, you don't smoke, and you've participated in a country music singer talent show. You represent a new image of a DJ."

“Now the entire industry needs to distance itself from rave,” Dead Rat continued.

"This is not easy." Ryan looked at the group of people in strange costumes in the distance.

"You're right. Rave parties were popular in the United States in the early 90s, but they were not like today, where they could be held openly in parks. They were illegal parties, and molly and HIV were rampant among adults and teenagers."

"The landmark event was Rave America in 1993, when more than 90 people gathered at Knott's Berry Farm in Los Angeles. Since then, U.S. states and cities have been enacting various restrictive laws throughout the 1000s. At the strictest time, people who participated in parties among friends in Chicago would be fined $, and in New Orleans, people who initiated parties could even be prosecuted as drug dealers." Dead Rat continued.

“This is one of the reasons why American radio stations reject electronic music, but it is not the decisive factor. The fundamental reason is that record companies cannot figure out how to develop electronic performances into professional artists who sell albums. No record company will invest radio resources in musicians who cannot see returns.”

"But all this is quietly changing with the rise of the Internet. People are ordering DJ mixes on YouTube, discussing on social networks and message boards, and more and more people are participating in offline electronic music events like Ultra Music Festival, including Daft Punk's perfect performance at Coachella last year, a huge, glowing split pyramid, which set a template for live performances of electronic music!"

"Therefore, I am more confident than ever about the rise of electronic music around the world. Perhaps it won't be long before DJs become the rock stars of this era." Dead Rat grinned.

Ryan, however, was not excited. He thought that instead of thinking about this, he should rehearse tomorrow's performance.

Dead Mouse shook his head: "DJ is more of a performer than a musician. The more prepared you are, the less you need to do during the performance. You may even just need to press the play button! I don't think this is right. I prefer to show my true self in front of the audience, including you."

What kind of perverse logic is this? Ryan saw that he could not convince the other party, so he had to go back to the hotel to prepare and say goodbye to the dead mouse.

Ryan had no choice but to return to the hotel and prepare to rehearse the "live PA" segment he would perform tomorrow in his room. He also uploaded the complete original remix of Tremor to a number of online paid download platforms including beatport.

On the way back to the hotel, Ryan also saved a person. The other person had an accident while paragliding on the sea, drifted to the shore, and was directly hung on the top of a not-so-tall palm tree. The whole person was entangled in the cable of the paraglider and could not move. Ryan climbed up with his hands and feet, let the other person hug him, and then cut the cable on the other person, and finally successfully brought her down. What was rare was that the woman was very tall, taller than Ryan, with long golden hair. After coming down from the tree, she was surrounded by her companions, and Ryan left quickly.

Ryan felt that he was very unlucky and encountered problems wherever he went, but when he thought about this being Florida, everything made sense.

The next afternoon, the 2008 Ultra Music Festival officially opened.

(End of this chapter)